Welcome to It's A Good Life, the podcast for entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing

yourself and your business.

Here's your host, Fander of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeding.

Welcome to today's episode, How to Say No and Smile.

Warren Buffett says the difference between successful people and really successful people

is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Many of us do have the disease to please and many of us overestimate our capacity while

underestimating our current obligations.

I'm going to share three concepts with you today that will allow you to say no and smile.

So the three concepts are the disease to please every yes is a no and the benefits of no.

So let's talk about the disease to please and the first point I'd make in that is that

it is more important to be respected than light, especially in business.

You know, so many people struggle when family and friends or even past customers don't

do business with them again or don't do business with them at all and they like you.

And maybe they even trust you as a person, but trust is made up of the character and

competence.

And if we're just focused on getting people to like me, remember that Sally field speech

when she won the Oscar, she receives the Oscar, she runs down, she's overcome with emotion.

And what does the Oscar mean to her?

She goes, they like me.

They really, really like me.

Now the thing that was wild about that Oscar speech is that she was speaking to an audience

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